Costco Wholesale Corporation continues to cooperate with agencies on their information requests relating to compliance with regulations concerning air-conditioning and refrigeration equipment.
The Environmental Protection Agency issued an Information Request to the Company, dated Nov. 1, 2007, under the Clean Air…
WHX Corporation reports that in July 2008, parties to a suit captioned “Agere Systems, Inc., et al. v. Advanced Environmental Technology Corp., et al.” regarding a site in Pennsylvania settled the case with the payment by H&H Tube Co. of…
Honeywell International Inc. continues to maintain provisions for estimated costs for environmental matters at certain chrome sites in New Jersey.
Provisions have been made in the Company’s financial statements for the estimated costs of the court-ordered excavation and transport for offsite…
KANSAS CITY — October 16, 2008 — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has selected ASW Associates, Inc., of Lincoln, Nebr., to remove and dispose of lead-contaminated residential soil in Madison County, Mo. The company has extensive experience working on lead…
CHICAGO, Illinois — October 17, 2008 — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Region 5 has reached an agreement with Vesuvius USA Corp. on alleged violations of EPA regulations to protect stratospheric ozone at the company’s ceramic parts manufacturing plant in…
KANSAS CITY, Kansas — October 16, 2008 — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has selected Encon International, Inc., of El Paso, Texas, to continue the cleanup of mine waste in Cherokee County, Kans., specifically around the cities of Baxter Springs…
SAN FRANCISCO, California — October 16, 2008 — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has settled with a Santa Rosa, Calif., cable assembly company for $13,625 for allegedly failing to report its toxic chemical releases, a violation of the Emergency Planning…
PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania — October 15, 2008 — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced that Mareva, Inc. has agreed to pay a $27,000 penalty to settle alleged violations of the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) that occurred at its…
SAN FRANCISCO, California — October 15, 2008 - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has ordered Scottsdale, Ariz.- based Unelko Corporation to stop selling nine unregistered pesticides in violation of the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act.
The EPA has issued a…
SAN FRANCISCO, California October 15, 2008 — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has settled with Pool Chlor, Inc. for failing to prepare written emergency operation procedures and failing to submit complete annual chemical inventories in 2005 and 2006, violations of…